by CJ | Jan 16, 2018 | Journal
But now we can put the doors on our last cabinet! Turns out they were shipped from a warehouse in Oregon. As Jane put it, if they’d just told us, we could have gone over and picked them up.
by CJ | Jan 14, 2018 | Journal
Not yet. But I’m sure it’s coming. All through the Great Remodel, there was no feeding the cats in the kitchen—just too much dust for health, and too much chaos. With my range free-ranging nearly daily and even the icebox waltzing matilda, the fate...
by CJ | Jan 13, 2018 | Journal
These are some of the babies, who are now half a foot long. Hoping they make it through the winter in good form. Right now it’s melting as if somebody had taken a giant hair dryer to the town. Jane is in the kitchen applying copper contact paper to the nice...
by CJ | Jan 10, 2018 | Journal
We got him, about a 4″-5″ size, to reassure our really baby koi, who would not come out from under their rocks and eat. Baby koi have a strong self-preservation instinct. And big ones frighten them. But so does no big ones in the pond. So…Goku. Who...
by CJ | Jan 9, 2018 | Journal
We painted the garage wall in imitation of a Chinese painting—painted it first in mud—real mud, from the ground—so we could get the feel we wanted, hosed off the bits we didn’t like, then re-did them. Then we got a selection of little sample...
by CJ | Jan 7, 2018 | Journal
I have some things to learn about sizing and I need better pix, but you get the idea. This is that bird netting we use to keep fish IN the pond…
by CJ | Jan 3, 2018 | Journal
I got my copies a couple of days ago. Amazon is shipping.
by CJ | Jan 3, 2018 | Journal
So I just went through ‘approving’ for ‘restore’ anything that didn’t look like a duplicate. This may stuff the pages with ton ‘o deleted things and maybe even some you don’t want back, but I didn’t see anything that...
by CJ | Dec 28, 2017 | Journal
Click on pic to enlarge. The foreground clutter is a spare rollabout holding baking stuff. No, Jane is not finished. But we have countertops, and our new sink.
by CJ | Dec 24, 2017 | Journal
This, mind you, is Schuler, not Lowes. Lowes called us to say there were 3 more packages for us. So we gathered up the mystery drawer and traded it for the 3 mystery packages… And indeed it was our two missing doors and the front drawer panel, but—no...
by CJ | Dec 21, 2017 | Journal
The replacement cabinet is here, the doors for the other one are here, and probably the drawer front. We got the Lowes guys to take the old one out and bring the new one in, and it’s 1/16 inch larger than the other, but we don’t think this (being a body...
by CJ | Dec 18, 2017 | Journal
Jane had a weird call from new health insurance wanting a credit card and it took us some scrambling to find out it actually was legitimate. During which time we had a kerfluffle with account numbers and needing a verification via phone, as I recall, which needed my...
